Sustainable Crediton Newsletter Issue 9

Hi Everybody

Welcome to the last edition of the Sustainable Crediton Newsletter for 2010. The Core Group would like to wish everyone reading this a peaceful and enjoyable festive season.

The calendar section of this newsletter is becoming increasingly popular and we would like to encourage all readers to use it to publish dates of sustainable events they are involved with in and around Crediton.

Enjoy your festive celebrations.

Paula Mossman, Newsletter Editor

Dates for your Diary
2nd December	Holy Cross Church Xmas Tree Festival
2nd December	Endangered Plants and Herbal Medicine talk
2nd December	Waste Action Group Planning Meeting
4th December	Farmers' Market
7th December	Happiness & Sustainability
14th December	Waste Action Group Planning Meeting
15th December	Core Group- Mulled Wine and Nibbles
18th December	Christmas Farmers' Market
21st December	WEN Winter Solstice Celebration
12th January	Waste Action Group Planning Meeting
19th January	Core Group Meeting
22nd January	WEN Great Clothes Swop
28th January	WEN Great Clothes Swop
29th January	Seasonal Supper
27th February	WEN Tarka Trail Walk
12th March	Eco Fashion and Clothes Swop Day

Regular Events
Crediton Farmers Market Spinning Circle

Review of Sustainable Crediton workshop with MDDC

Paula Mossman and Gerald Conyngham of Sustainable Crediton Core Group and Simon Tytherleigh of Br ...

News Highlights

Women’s Environmental Network News

The Crediton Women's Environmental Network (WEN) is back! Please come and join us at our following events. If you need any more information about us do please get in touch. Crediton WEN tree at the Christmas Tree Festival in Crediton Parish Church in early December. Our theme is angels - wi ...

Trace the Tax

Poor countries have the riches to help work their own way out of poverty. But a worldwide culture of financial secrecy allows some unscrupulous companies to dodge tax and rob poor countries of more than $160bn a year. Trace the Tax is about helping them get their money back. You can help. The ...

Free Parking in Crediton

There will be FREE PARKING in St Saviours Way Car Park, Crediton all day on the following Saturdays: Saturday 4th December (Farmers Market) Saturday 11th December Saturday 18th December (Xmas Farmers Market) Cllr Bob Wright: "Come and shop in your LOCAL shops and help our town centre ...

Choose cheap local motoring - join Co-Cars

Here is inspiration from Taunton. We want one too!! A new pay as you go car is at Taunton Deane Borough Council offices, 5 minutes from the train station is accessible for all residents, businesses and even Sustainable Crediton members when in Taunton! For more information on how to join a ...

Copplestone £50,000 Lottery win

Last week Copplestone successfully won a £50,000 grant from the Big Lottery Fund to build a community playing field and village hall. Well done Copplestone! Ken Warren, the organiser, tells us how they did it: ''The world of digital communication is a wonderful thing. When we first st ...

Energy Group News

Sandford Energy Project We have issued a pre-tender questionnaire to nearly 30 local and national PV installers requesting information from them regarding our potential project. We want to find out whether there is potential for a group discount, how best to go about our project from an installer' ...